{"pk":40915,"title":"“The scope of an epigram”: Quickness, Magic, and Marcovaldo’s Environmental Eye","subtitle":null,"abstract":"\"Quickness,\" the second lecture collected in \nSix Memos for the New Millenium, \nis an essential value linking the old and new millennium.  In this essay, I examine how \"quickness\" is deployed in Italo Calvino’s celebrated Marcolvaldo stories, giving special attention to the primary elements of quickness: enchantment and attachment. Herein I suggest how quickness communicates impending cultural and environmental catastrophe and the slow violence wrought by consumer capitalism.  Positioned as he was during the Great Acceleration-the post-war period of rapid growth during which human action overtook other earth systems as the main governing factor in global processes-Calvino’s recommendation for quickness has special urgency for us as we move further into the Anthropocene.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Calvino"},{"word":"quickness"},{"word":"environment"},{"word":"Marcovaldo"}],"section":"IV. The Animal-Human-Mineral-Vegetal Continuum","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8gz502ct","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Gioia","middle_name":"","last_name":"Woods","name_suffix":"","institution":"Professor of Environmental Humanities, Department of Comparative Cultural Studies, Northern Arizona University.","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2022-09-26T23:42:20Z","date_accepted":"2022-09-26T23:42:20Z","date_published":"2023-10-11T18:03:46Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/40915/galley/30629/download/"}]}